Combined sleeve and skirt board.



PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

- B. M. HALLARBN.

GOMBINED sLEEvE AND SKIRT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BEATRICE M. HALLAREN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINED SLEEVE AND SKIRT BOARD.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BEATRICE M. HALLAREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thirty-eighth street and Fourteenth avenue, Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Sleeve and Skirt Board, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of this invention is to combine a sleeveboard with a skirt-board in such a manner that the skirt-board forms a support for the sleeve-board, and the sleeve-board can be held in its operative position when desired, and at other times turned underneath the skirt-board so that it may be out of the way.

The invention consists in the particular constructions herein described and claimed, and embracing the fixtures for supporting the sleeve-board upon the skirt-board, such fixtiu'es comprising a foot secured upon the skirt-board, an upright hinged upon the foot, and brackets hinged upon the upright, the sleeveboard being hinged upon the upright and sustained by the brackets when it is in use, and adapted to fold fiat with the fixtures and tiu'n to the under side of the skirt-board when not in use.

The invention also includes the means described for holding the upright in its operative position.

Theinvention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus with a sleeve-board in position for use upon the skirt-board; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 shows the side of the skirt-board at the end which supports the sleeveboard, with the sleeve board fixtures in section adjacent to the center line of the sleeve-board in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a similar view of the skirt board with the sleeveboard turned underneath the same; Fig. 5 is a plan of the foot and fixtures for the sleeve-board with the sleeve-board and its base-plate removed and the brackets folded as shown in Fig. 6, which is a plan of the sleeveboard fixtures folded-flat for transferring to the under side of the skirt-board.

The skirt-board a has legs I) pivoted by rod 0 near one end of the board and extended lengthwise of the board beneath the opposite end of the same. Legs d are pivoted to the middle of the legs I) by a rod .9, and provided each at the top end with a stud f adapted to fit a series of notches g in a notched seat h. A change of the studs f in the notches operates to raise or lower the skirt board.

The sleeve-board i is hinged by a metal base j upon the top of an upright 7c, the lower end of which is hinged by pins 1 in a recess m upon a foot n, which serves to hold the sleeve-board above or below the skirt-board Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

as may be desired. The recess m extends more than half way across the upper side of the foot n, and the pins l are formed integral with the lower corners of the upright 70 and project into the wood of the foot at the opposite ends of the recess. To facilitate the formation of the sockets for these pins, the foot is in practice made in two layers or flat pieces glued together, the lower piece embracing all that portion of the foot which lies below the recess, and the upper piece embracing the portion which is notched to form the recess, and which is also notched upon the under side to form the sockets for the pins Z. The division between the upper and lower pieces of the foot is not shown in the drawing, as the foot is practically integral and the penetration of the pins Z into the wood at the opposite ends of the recess m is clearly shown in Figs. 3, 5 and 6.

The foot 11 has an ear 0 at each end, and slotted plates 1, 1 are secured upon the opposite edges of the skirtboard with a space 8 between the same in which the ears are fitted, and are clamped when required by a screw p extended through the ears and through the slots g in the plates. A clamp-nut 10 upon the outer end of the screws serves to clamp the ears when adjusted. The foot lies upon the upper side of the skirt-board when sustaining the sleeve-board in its operative position, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, with the screws ,1) in the inner end of the slots q, and thus at a few inches from the outer edge of the skirt-board. A block w is fixed upon the skirtboard next the edge of the foot when thus adjusted, and is fiunished with an eye 10. A notch is formed in the under side of the block 10 to fit the lower end of a brace xwhich is hinged to the base-plate j of the sleeve-board. The slots q extend so near the end of the skirt-board that the foot and all the attached parts can be swung over the end of the skirt-board to the lower side of the same, as shown in Fig. 4. Brackets t are hinged upon the edges of the upright, and ribs 14 are formed upon the edges of the base-plate j which engage the same when the parts are in their operative position; and when in this position, a latch '11, jointed upon a screw 1) on the upright, is engaged with-the eye to, thus locking the fixture to the skirt-board. With the upright thus locked in place, the brackets t and the brace a: serve to hold the sleeve-board securely above the skirt-board, so that sleeves can be fitted thereon and the dress to which they are attached lie between the two boards, or upon the skirt-board.

When the skirt board requires to be used without the sleeve-board, the latch 41 is disengaged from the eye w and the clamp-screws p loosened, which permits the foot n to be slid to the end of the skirt-board and tipped (with the two screws resting in the outer ends of the slots g) so as to move the foot wholly to the under side of the skirt-board, as shown in Fig. 4, with the fixtures and sleeve-board attached. Preparatory to thus turning the fixtures to the under side of the skirt-board, the brace x is drawn from beneath the block 11), the sleeveboard tipped to a vertical position parallel with the upright k, and the brackets t folded toward one another, as shown in Fig. 6, and secured by a button y pivoted upon the screw 1). The upright is also tipped parallel with the upper surface of the foot 91 when the latter is turned to the under side of the skirt-board, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6. When thus turned, the parts are held in their new position by a button a upon the under side of the skirt-board as shown in dotted lines in Fi 2. To prevent any displacement of the board in the slots q when the parts are thus adjusted, a notch r is formed in the under edge of each of the slots, and the parts so proportioned that the screw p lies in such notch, as shown in Fig. 4, when the upright is turned beneath the skirt-board.

The whole device may be packed for transportation by detaching the tie-bar oi the legs d from the notches g and folding the legs flat upon the under side oi the skirt-board.

The combination of the sleeve-board with the skirtboard is thus effected without interfering with the use of the skirt-board in the ordinary manner when desired, and the whole apparatus is adapted to collapse so as to occupy but little space when not in use or when in transportation.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

1. A skirt-board having legs to support the same and fixtures to support a sleeve-board securely above one end of the same, such fixtures comprising a foot n secured upon the skirt-board, an upright hinged upon the foot, brackets t hinged upon the upright, and a sleeve-board hinged upon the upright and sustained by the brackets.

2. A skirt-board having legs to support the same, and fixtures to support a sleeve-board above one end of the same, such fixtures comprising a foot n secured upon the skirt-board, an upright hinged upon the foot, brackets 13 hinged upon the upright, a sleeveboard base hinged upon the upright and sustained by the brackets, a hook and eye connecting the skirt-board to the upright when the latter is elevated, and a hinged brace connecting the sleeve-board base with the skirt-board when the sleeve-board is arranged for use.

3. A skirt-board having legs to support the same, slotted hinge-plates secured to the edges of the skirt-board near one end, the foot-piece n having ears 0 with bolts p fitted to the slots and adapted to turn therein to move the footpiece from the upper to the lower side of the skirt-board, and fixtures hinged upon the foot-piece with a sleeveboard hinged thereon, the fixtures and sleeve-board being adapted to fold flat for securing upon the under side of the skirtboard.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BEATRICE M. HALLAREN.

Witnesses:

L. Lnn, THOMAS S. CRANE. 

